Bored with birthday cards? Tired of text messaging? Well, don't get tangled up in blue getting in touch with friends.

Send your message via Mr Bob Dylan. In Subterranean Homesick Blues, Bob spelled out his vision with paper slogans in a New York alleyway, and now, you can too.

Simply log on and choose a ten-line message and then click send. Friends will be serenaded by the 20th century's coolest man delivering a personalised message just for them, leaving all other forms of e-greeting just blowin' in the wind.

Susie Flynn for President

There's a fresh new face on the White House campaign trail, ready to challenge Hillary and Obama for the US presidency. The only difference is; she's just nine years old.

Meet Susie Flynn, a candidate with a single-issue platform: to reform the American health system. There are nine million children in the United States without any health insurance, and Susie is taking action.

On her website, you can find out about her affirmative action stance and lend your support. "If you elect me as your next president, every child will get the health insurance they deserve," she says.

With our own health service in disarray, not to mention her Irish sounding name, Susie sounds like she could be just the girl for the Irish health ministry, and even make a good Taoiseach. When she's finished reforming the health service, she could re-shuffle the Cabinet and replace our current ministers with Teletubbies. The question is, would anyone notice the difference?

The Icepick

Big Brother isn't the only voyeur household in town. On the web, the Icepick is described as a wired house with prying eyes, ears and sensors everywhere ? there's barcodes on the bin, temperature sensors on the toilet, a doorbell cam, front-door cam and ?.wait for it?.a microwave cam.

Microwave cam - what a curiously pointless waste of time? After all, does anyone out there really give a set of rusty nuts whether it's toad in the hole or beans on toast being consumed in the icepick house.

What next? Will icepick fans find themselves glued to images spewed out by the paint dry cam, the pitch dark cam, the u-bend cam or the inevitable cam cam, a device whose sole purpose would be to watch another camera as it records insignificant events.

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